![]() The Byrds' 'Mr Tambourine Man' on the other hand went to number 1 both in the UK and on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the first-ever recording of a Bob Dylan song to top a pop chart. 'Maggies Farm' went to 22 in the UK and didn't even chart back home. ![]() All in all, a dismal-looking collection of mostly NOT top-drawer BYRDS clips, mainly of historical interest, with The Byrds' musical and vocal talents not well represented. TAMBOURINE MAN with a vocal delivery like a hoarse seal. 'Subterranean Homesick Blues' went to number 39 in the US and number 9 in the UK. Bob Dylan wanders onto the stage to join in on the last two songs, managing to ruin the Byrds' harmony on MR. He's only had ten top 40 US singles and only four Top 10s (the last of which was 'Lay Lady Lay' in 1969).īob Dylan didn't even release 'Mr Tambourine Man' as a standalone track, and while its parent album Bringing It All Back Home topped the UK albums chart and went to number 6 in the UK, its singles didn't do as well. "It was a prayer of submission." How did 'Mr Tambourine Man' do in the charts?įor such an amazing artist, Bob Dylan has rarely set the singles charts alight. "I was singing to God and I was saying that God was the Tambourine Man and I was saying to him, 'Hey, God, take me for a trip and I'll follow you'," he told biographer Johnny Rogan for his The Byrds: Timeless Flight Revisited. Well, it's worth noting that (i) many songwriters have written drug-inspired songs and later denied they're about drugs, fearing censorship or just not wanting their music to be seen in such reductive terms (ii) Bob Dylan has a long, entertaining history of white lies when it comes to talking about his life and work.įor what it's worth, Roger McGuinn, who sung the lead on The Byrds' version, said his take was more inspired by spiritualism than drugs. Is the Tambourine Man, as Dylan once claimed, guitarist Bruce Langhorne, whose Turkish frame drum looked just like a tambourine? Columbia Studios, Hollywood, CA Genre Folk rock Length 3:08 2:31 (single edit) Label Columbia Writer(s) Bob Dylan Producer Gary Usher The Byrds singles. The Byrds version is based on Bob Dylans demo of the song that he recorded during sessions for his 1964 album Another Side of Bob Dylan (Dylans version. So is it just about a sleepless man, waiting for a spirit or muse for inspiration or a non-pharmaceutical release? In a pretty bold move, Dickson invited Bob himself to see the band rehearsing their version at World Pacific Studios. McGuinn overhauled the song, shifting the time signature from 2/4 to a more standard 4/4 while he and Dickson decided to make it a bit more Beatlesy and record it with electric guitars. When Jim McGuinn, Gene Clark, and David Crosby were still the Jet Set, their manager Jim Dickson got hold of an acetate of Dylan's first demo of the song (the one featuring Ramblin' Jack Elliott) in August 1964. In fact, The Byrds first recorded 'Mr Tambourine Man' before Bob Dylan's was released, and before they were even The Byrds. What definitely didn't happen was The Byrds picking up a copy of Bringing It All Back Home in their local HMV and deciding to a cover it. The first recorded version of 'Mr Tambourine Man' hit shelves as the opening song of side two of Bringing It All Back Home on March 22, 1965. It wasn’t until I picked up the Nuggets collection and then the numerous Pebbles albums that I plumbed the depths of this scene, but it was by no means brand new to me either.That's the entire acoustic side of his Bringing It All Back Home album. Songs like “ Pushin’ Too Hard ” by the Seeds, “ (We Ain’t Got) Nothin’ Yet ” by Blues Magoos, and “ I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night) ” by the Electric Prunes really made an impression on me. ![]() These songs were followed closely by the glorious sounds of garage rock and psychedelic rock that were then in their infancy. Tambourine Man ” but in my usual contrarian way, I preferred Dylan’s original – it was a lot longer for one thing. Bob Dylan himself preferred the Byrds ’ cover to his own recording of “ Mr. Tambourine Man ” by the Byrds and the revamped “ The Sounds of Silence ” by Simon and Garfunkel. Other great folk-rock sounds of that period included the release of the cover of Dylan ’s “ Mr. First and foremost was “ Like a Rolling Stone ” by Bob Dylan that song – plus the flip side “ Gates of Eden ” that was nearly as long and every bit as good – captivated me in a way that I just couldn’t keep quiet about. By then, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones were old news and while I was still paying attention, what was really grabbing me at the time were American artists and bands. I was born a couple of years later than Greg Shaw, so I turned 14 in 1965. Written by Nate Herman Directed and Edited by Aemilia Scott Sound and Additional Camera by Ed Flynn 'Friday' Performed by Roger McGuinn, Gene Clark, Michael Clarke, Chris Hillman, and Dave Crosby.
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